Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [adv] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 2 | Some information on survivors is very sketchy , and in order to maintain some form of balance in the listing , we have refrained from giving serial numbers , registrations ( in the few places where they apply ) or similar . |
| 3 | For the very poorest the station was one of the few places where they could encounter the better-off , and attempt some income redistribution by the provision of services like newspaper-selling , boot-blacking , hawking , or simply begging . |
| 4 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 5 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 6 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 7 | They found swimming normally impossible and a few hours later they died . |
| 8 | A few decades later they became even more remote when they passed with the whole of Mesopotamia under the control of the Parthians . |
| 9 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 10 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |
| 11 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 12 | A few minutes later they were given a direct order to go to bed — and if you disobey a direct order you 're instantly put on report . |
| 13 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 14 | A few minutes later they came out onto the bright and still busy Lower Road . |
| 15 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 16 | A few minutes later they had reached the main road and were heading through a clear November evening towards the north side of the spectacular Cornish peninsula . |
| 17 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 18 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 19 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 20 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 21 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 22 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 23 | A few days later they were all back at Siwa , somewhat disappointed . |
| 24 | A few days later they would both again be involved in an attack on a convoy , where one merchantman was seen to list and pour black smoke after suffering hits from Dennis ' bombs . |
| 25 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 26 | A few days later they signed identical " non-exclusive occupation " agreements which provided that each of them had to pay equal monthly payments . |
| 27 | Just a few days later they recovered part of a body from a lake in surrey . |
| 28 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 29 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 30 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |